Word: croon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...song in the original entitled "Croon-Spoon" becomes "Moon. . ." Director Leonard Lehrman sacrifices a certain amount of cohesiveness in trying to tell us that the play hasn't lost its relevance. The moon reference puts a date on a play which shouldn't be dated...
...makeshift stage and began singing I've Got the Sun in the Morning. After that came some chatter ("Golly, you guys have been here a long time, haven't you?") and some more songs. The finale called for Jan to haul a bashful G.I. onstage and croon Love for Sale as she unbuttoned his shirt...
...they croon in June and croak in August, the best that the Orioles usually can hope for is to be remembered in September. They have not won a big-league pennant since 1896; they are the team that Mighty Casey struck out for; and they peddled Babe Ruth away for $2,900. Still, all those past transgressions will be forgiven this year, unless the Orioles find some curious new way to commit suicide. Last week, slightly past the halfway point of the 1966 season, they were leading the American League by a full seven games...
...himself. "I'd have him back, but he's too expensive." Week after week, he repeats the same business: lobbing a cigarette butt into the air like a grenade, then holding his ears as if waiting for the explosion; or stumbling drunkenly over to the piano to croon a few bars like "It's June in January/ 'cause I'm in Australia...
...charbonne, is the longest in dogdom. Apartment dwellers-or at least their neighbors-will favor the Basenji, a terrier-sized hunting dog once kept by the Egyptian pharaohs that never barks. But he whines, groans and gargles, and when happy makes a noise described as "a cross between a croon and a yodel." As for burglars-packs of Basenjis are used to hunt gorillas in their native Africa...